Owners of 432 delinquent properties in the Half-Way-Tree area are about to come under closer scrutiny as the Kingston and St Andrew Municipal Corporation (KSAMC) and Tax Administration Jamaica (TAJ) take their tax compliance campaign into the busy commercial district today in pursuit of $162 million in unpaid property taxes.

The three-day field operation forms part of the third phase of an 11-month joint revenue drive aimed at improving compliance and recovering outstanding property taxes, trade licence fees, and signs-and-billboards obligations.

The campaign follows an intelligence-gathering exercise in which the two agencies compiled information on property owners, businesses, trade licences, and other commercial obligations in the Half-Way-Tree area.